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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-12
THE KNIGHTS ASSEMBLY.
No Business of Importance Transacted Yes
terday-Open Sessions Advocated.

MINNEAPoLIs, Oct. 1.-THE K. of L. Gen
eral Assembly this morning approved the de-
mand of the local printers for increased scale
of wages, and congratulated them the mat
ter having been submitted for arbitration. The
following are the resolutions:
Whereas it has to our notice that certain
newspaper compositors of Minneapolis endeavor-
of wages and that the job printers seeking the
same end by effort to reduce the number of hours
of daily toll, therefore be it,
Resolved, that deem their demands just and
equitable, and commend the action of employers
and employees in agreeing to settle points of difference
regarding by arbitration and hope the question
of lessenng the hours of toll will be satisfactorily
ranged.
The other business of the mornings session
was delayed account of a motion to suspend
the rules to allow calling of the roll of districts
and their representatives and assemblies. 1t
was also stated by the chair that this would be
the last opportunity the delegates would have to
present documents. after to day the conven-
ton would move right along routine business
: to the end. A. A. Carlton presided, as General
Master Workman Powderly announced himself
tired.
A letter was read from the State Assembly Of
Belgium extending congratulations to the
vention for its straightforward work, and its
sentiments Endorsed.
The committee appointed several days ago TO
denounce the Baltimore e. Ohio deal brought in
some scathing resolutions and advised that
memorial be prepared for signatures and sent to
Congress in order that the question of govern
ment relegraphs might be brought before the
public.
The committee on mileage was called upon by
motion to report, as it might suit the conven
fence of some members to return home shortly.
Much discussion arose, some in favor of 2.
of cents per mile. AS the constitution
provides 4 cents per mile each way, that was
adopted.
In the afternoon session the Knights instruct
ed the finance committee to examine the report
and the account of the general executive board.
Five thousand dollars was appropriated to aid
in the prosecution of the suits pending against
the Texas State Capitol syndicate for violation
of the law prohibiting importation of contract
labor
Resolutions were adopted to further the estab.
lishment of friendly relations between the order
and the Patrons of Industry and the Farmers
All.nce 1t decided to send general lect-
urer to the Pacific coast, and also to print the
ritual of the order in the Polish. Bohemian and
Italian languages. Minor detail work completed
the session
Many members now talking about open
session. They declare that nothing occurs that
is not blazoned to the world, and that it does
injustice some 1t is among the possibilities
that a move will be made for it, though Powder
ly may oppose and defeat it.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18

half naked opponents, on whom the noise
and flame would have terrifying effect
Even in modern battles the results OBJ
tanned by the artillery fire, especially by
the fire of shells, is out OF all proportion
to the number of men killed. Later,
when the secret of the Greek fire had
been known to the Saracens, and it had
been adopted by them, it's effects were
equally dreaded by the Crusaders. The
fact that it could not be extinguished by
water added to the terror caused by the
noise, smoke and flame. The secret of it's
composition was carefully guarded by
the Greeks and retained for their exclu-
sive use for about 400 years. Fables
were invented to hide from other nations
so valuable an adjunct to the art of war,
and the barbarisns were informed that it
had been revealed by an angel to Con-
stantine the Great, and that to commune
cate the secret of it's composition would
provoke The vengeance of the God of the
Christians. After the invention of gun
powder it was no longer of much value.
L have formula for the making of
Greek fire, and in it petroleum is one of
the chief observation-disclosures Maga-
sine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
ASBESTOS.

The name asbestos may be considered
rather as term implying peculiar form,
sometimes assumed by several minerals,
than as name denoting particular spe-
cies; it is, in fact, applied to varieties of
minerals, such as actinolite, tremolite,
ETC., which occur in long, capillary crys-
tails, placed side by side in parallel posi-
ton, and thus giving rise to a fbrous
mass. Those varieties, the fibres OF which
are very delicate and regularly arranged,
are called amianthus, term signifying
unpolluted, unstsined. OF the finest kinds
the individual crystals are readily sepa-
rated from each other, are very flexible
and elastic, and have a white or greenish
color, with fine silky lustre. Though a
single fibre is readily fused into white
enamel, in mass it is capable of resisting
the ordinary fame, 80 that when woven it
produces fre-proof cloth. Those vari-
cites in which the crystals are coarser, with
scarcely any fexibility, are called common
asbestos. 1t is generally of dull green,
and sometimes pesrly lustre and readily
fuses before the blow-pipe fame. 1t oc-
ours more frequently than the amianthus,
or finer kind, and is usually found in
veins traversing serpentine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
THE XIOI EFT

Napoleon, when First Consul, asked
Josephine what present he should bring
her on her name day. "Only bouquet
OF violets," she had replied. On the
morning of the day-it was in February
Napoleon was waiting impatiently for
the arrival Of violets he had ordered from
Versailles, as it was impossible to get
them from the gardeners of Paris.
While waiting he received from an un-
known hand a magnificent bouquet of
violets. He sprang on his horse, and
galloped to Malmaison, and presented
the flowers to his wife. From that day
Napoleon loved the flower, and Josephine
always had violets about her. When she
died violets were planted on her tomb.
Napoleon planted violets at st. Helena
During his exile the question, asked by
one wearing a button-hole bouquet of
violets, "Is this your favorite flower? Do
you like it's frsgrance" meant, "Are you
you friend to the exiled Emperor? and
do you favor his return to France?"
When the Emperor's remains were re-
stored to France, as soon as the coffin
touched French soil it was covered with
bouquets and wreaths of violets.
While Louis Napoleon was waiting in
the room of Paris hotel to learn if he
had been chosen president of the repub-
lie, he noticed that the landlord had stood
on the mantel and window stills costly
vases filed with violete. In after days,
when Louis became Emperor, he remem-
bered that delicate attention of the land
lord.
The President often visited the villa of
Spanish family near Paris. The eldest
daughter of the house was the attraction
that drew him. At first she rejected his
attentions. But one evening large as
sembly at her mothers house saw Eugene
appear in an exquisite violet toilet. There
were violets in her hair, violets looped up
her dress, and in her hand she carried a
bouquet of violets. The guests under
stood, from the language of the flowers,
that Eugene had accepted Louis Napo-
Icons offer of marriage.
In the early days of the second Empire,
on the 18th of November, it being the
Empress's name day, there was an ova-
ton of violets offered to her. Tens of
thousands OF punches of violets were
thrown over the ratings of the Tuilleries.
The servants piled them up into pyramids
which reached as high as the first floor
windows. They decked the doors with
them, and the great balcony, from which
the Empress greeted the people, seemed
made of violets.
There have been many changes since
then, but to-day the violet is still the
favorite flower of thousands of French
men-so deeply has Napoleon stamped
himself upon the imagination OF France.
Sunday School Advocate.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
DON'T NAG EACH OTHER.

Young wives and husbands cannot be
too strongly reminded OF the probable
shipwreck they will make OF their happi-
ness if they yield to that i'll temper which
expresses itself in discourtesy, want OF
compliance, unnecessary opposition, and,
above all, that most disastrous smuee-
ment of "nagging" and creating row.
Hundreds of households have gone wrong
from the mere want of checking in time
the habit OF annoying as relief to mo-
mentary feeling OF irritation or discom-
fort. The wife who gets into the way of
contradicting, or checking" her husband,
of opposing him in small things andstand
ing out in large ones-the husband who is
sneering, tempestuous, tyrannical, fault
finding; perhaps neither side knowing the
whole extent of it's folly, but just giving
way to it as more easy than to fight and
conquer it;-these young people are doing
their best to dig the grave of their mar
ried peace; and some day poor, fainting
little love will fall into it stark and
plumeless, and will never rise to life
again.
In the beginning these little tiffs and
discomforts are made up with kiss from
him and few tears from her to add
cement to the reconciliation. By time
the tiffs are more acrid, and the reconcil-
iation is less warm. By still further time
this never comes at all; and things get into
that chronic state when there is never an
open breach and never formal healing,
but an ever widening rift and a never
ending GOODNESS. Then the two lives jar
and grind like rusty hinges-locks which
misfit the slot, wheels where the axle is
stiff, or anything else which would never
work together in harmony and smooth
ness, but which for want of care to keep
the adjustment exact, perhaps for want
of oil to the joints, creak and hang and
chafe and do not fit-to the annoyance,
and more, of all the bystanders.-
Journal.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18

abundance of diamonds, and would be
mortified if he could not make good
show of them on state occasions. In fact,
it is almost impossible to conceive of a
diamondless king or queen. Diamonds
have come down from the middle ages
as one of the marks of royalty and the
most essential part of the splendor Of a
court. They have, ever since the rise of
modern Europe out of bsrbarism, been
considered marks of great wealth. Down
almost to our own day, wealthy people
were not very numerous, and all belong
ed to the court circle. 1t was then "the
thing" for every mobiles wife to have q
good supply, but for the queen to have
more than any other woman. In our
time, however, wealth, and even great
wealth, has become so widely diffused
that diamonds are no longer the exclu-
sive luxury of monsrchs and the great
landholders who formed the nobility or
gentry.-NeaU York EUening Post.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
DIAMONDS.

The sale of the French crown Jewels
which was recently gong on in Paris,
is probably the most marked indication
possible, not exactly Of the extinction
of the monsIchical tradition in France,
but of it's failure any longer to touch
the popular imagination. No such out
ward and visible sign of the separa-
ton of the French people from royalty
in all shapes and forms has been afford
ed in rational times. In the early days of
the first revolution, half crazed fanatics
chose more emphatic modes of express
ing hatred and contempt of kings and
queens, but in sober days Frenchmen
have never until now proposed to put up
the properties" OF the court at public
auction. After the war of 1874, the EN-
press Eugenie's underclothing was dis
posed of to the highest bidder, but her
wardrobe was not an heirloom of the
French nation, as the crown jewels have
always been considered. The sale of
these means clearly that the French peo-
pie have either done with royalty, or
think they have, with a certainty and
solemnity they have never experienced
before. A monarchy must by immem-
orial usage, have plenty Of jewels. A
king who had none, or could be eclipsed
on a state occasion by finer display
than he could make on the part of one
of his pampered mobiles, would feel hu-
initiated. Every people, who employs a
king, in fact, expects him TO have an
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
Bar1,r, ftonre, and Gardem.

Ohio appropriates $4,000 to an agri-
cultural experiment station.
Ex-Governor Hauser says that this will
be the greatest year in the history of
Montana. The product of its mines
alone will be $4O,OOO,OOO, besides the
100000 to be spent in railroad build
ing.
The crop prospect in Hand County,
OAK, is the best for years. The ground
Is in fine condition, small grain of all
kinds is growing rapidly and the grass is
all that could be desired at this season of
the year.
A correspondent of the Country Gem
ttenaan thinks frost ir epring hurts
corn much less than frost In the fall.
Corn will endure, when young, a pretty
hard frost without injury-a harder frost
than many farmers imagine.
Farmers are jubilant over their pros-
poets for good crops. Many acres of sod
are being turned and all the ground here
tofore plowed promises an abundant
yield. Corn, oats, wheat, rye. sorghum
and millet are the principal crops plant
ed, with some considerable crops of
Irish and sweet potatoes. Gardens are
just grand Garden City, (Kan.) Seati-
mel.
On the high rolling prairies, away from
the bottoms, nearly every farm now has
its windmill, and besides pumping all
the water for stock and domestic purpo-
ses the mills can be utilized in score of
ways to furnish economic and CHEAP
power for the farmer who has corn TO
grind, grain to thresh, hay and straw to
cut, churning to do, and many other
ways to use the power which is furnished
virtually without money and without
price.-Topeka (Kan.) Mail.
There seems to be diversity OF opin-
ion In regard to the matter of raising
pumpkins among corn. 1t is noticea-
bic fact that the most prosperous far
mers, farmers who make the moet out Of
their work, and make both ends meet,
seem to set considerable store upon the
pumpkin crop, and generally raise their
pumpkins in their corn-felds. 1t re-
quires but little trouble to make the earth
yield double crop in this way, and it
can be done without materially impover-
ishing the ground. -Stockman.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
OUR WIVES.

Ruskin, in speaking of the wife says:
"a iudicious wife is always nipping off
from her husbands moral nature little
twigs that are growing in the wrong di-
rection. She keeps him in shape by prun-
ing. II you say anything silly, che will
affectionately style You SO. If you de-
clare that you will do some absurd thing,
she will find some way of preventing you
from doing it. And by far the chief
part of all the common sense there is in
the world belongs unquestionably to wo-
men. The wisest things man common
ly does are those which his wife counsels
him to do. A wife is a grand wielder of
the moral pruning knife. If Johnson's
wife had lived there would have been
no boarding up of orange peel, no touch
ing all the posts in walking along the
street, no eating and drinking with dis
gushing velocity. II Oliver Goldsmith
had been married he never would have
worn that memorable and ridiculous
coat. Whenever you find a man whom
you know little about oddly dressed,
talking absurdly, or exhibiting eccentric
ity OF manner, you may be sure that he is
not a married man; for the corners are
rounded OF. the little shoots pared away
in married men. Wives have much more
sense than their husbands. The wite's
advice is like the ballast that keeps the
ship steady"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
SLAM MING DOORS.

One OF the rudest habits of ill bred and
thoughtless persons is that of slamming
doors. Once called with a friend upon
a sick person whose nerves had become
so painfully acute through suffering,
that noise tortured her. A screen door
opened from her room into the hall, and
as callers and members of the family
passed in or out, quick, sharp slam fol.
lowed close on their egress or ingress.
The torture of the noise sent a spasm of
pain across the sick woman's face, but
she bore it uncomplainingly, thinking it
more endurable than flies and mosqui-
toes and no one had noticed or thought
to lessen this annoyance, until my friends
kind heart and quick eye prompted and
planned remedy. She called for tacks
and cotton-batting, and making firm lit
tie cushions of the batting she tackled
them up and down the casing where the
door would strike, and the sharp slam
bang was instantly softensd as the door
swung to. The grateful language and
glance Of the sick woman made me wish
that I, too, had eyes that could see ways
to be helpful toward others.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
PIGEON SHOOTING

The men who coolly stand up and fire
for hour after hour at hundreds of terri
fed, trembling little creatures, let loose
from trap and dazed by the sunlight
and the noise and the fright, are not
heroes in any sense of the word. They
incur no risks, they enter into no dangers;
they are butchers, that is all, and they
occupy themselves until they are tired,
with putting out of life as many of the
innocent creatures that God has made as
they possibly can, with the greater or less
degree of skill in the manner of their do
ing it. The more they kill the better, so
they think and SO we think also. If they
would only kill them all, we should have
less to say against pigeon matches, even
if we could not commend them, but there
is darker side to the picture.
Some years ago when travelling in Eu-
rope, we were at Monte Carlo, the spot 30
well known as being the only place where
gambling is now legalized in Europe, and
where it is carried on as regular bust
ness by the government of the little
principality Of Monaco. The gardens sur
rounding the reimbursement" or gam
bling house, are beautiful in the extreme,
but one portion of them, triangular
piece of ground, enclosed by light fence,
especially attracted our attention on &C.
count of the vivid green of the grass,
which was, we thought, the most brilliant
and beautiful we had ever beheld. Upon
inquiry what that particular piece of land
meant, and why it was enclosed by a
fence, we were told that the celebrated
pigeon matches of Monte Carlo took
place there, and that they occurred nearly
every day at certain hour in the after
noon. We turned away with horror from
the beautiful green lawn which we had
SO much admired moment before; it's
brilliant verdure appeared spotted and
stained with the blood that had been
shed there, and we scarcely knew which
awoke in us the stronger feeling of re-
pulsiop, the enclosure where so much
cruelty was inflicted upon one of the low
er orders of creation, or the magnificent
gambling house close by where were
wrecked the regulations, the fortunes,
the lives and the souls of so many of
Gods nobler creatures.-Cdrolin Earle
White, IN The Bird Call.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18

1 call? 1t is only me, little Jacopol O.,
do not be unkind to your petit frere"
The child at last sank upon his knees,
swayed for few seconds and then fell
heavily ON the damp stone squares.
When Father Hildebrand reached the
boy-for of course, it was poor little ia
copo-a shaft of moonlight was shining
on his face like q stream Of glory sent
from heaven. No need to tell the rest.
Jacopo had only tainted, but it was
many months before he arose from q
fever, during which his black clusters Of
hair had turned pure white. He recover
ed, but never would say a word about
the events Of that terrible night. All he
could cry was: "Claire ma Claire ,"
Father Hildebrand took care OF the poor
child. Not only had Jacopo's hair turn
ed white, but his quiet, steady blue eyes
glistened with light unknown to SUM-
light; it was the light that never shone
on land or sea.
He is now the darling OF the poor OF
Boulogne; their mascot, their what ever
you please to call it. But Father Hide
brand declares that on that shaft Of noon
light which swept down upon the pray
ing boy he perceived in ecstacy, the form
of his beloved Claire. Sand why not F."
added my friend;" does not Claire mean
the moonlight, and might not the straight
shafts of moonlight be the celestial We
hicle of vision to the boy%
That finished my friends story Of ia
copo.
The boy with the superDaturally visit
full eyes and the snow-set hair is dead.
Jscopo died, with his hands clasped over
his breast in pious position, murmur-
ing: "Claire, ma Claire, am coming to
join thee in thy Fairgrounds. Why did
you leave me SO lonely to be the child Of
the new year-the sad fills du jour de
fans" And Father Hildebrsnd's good
soul, is inconsolable. Death, he declares,
while he touches his breast and forehead,
and makes the sign Of the "santa croix,"
has for him no further terrors. Fortifi-
cation for the eternities he had found in
little Jacopo.-MalcoInl MCPHERSON, in
Detroit Free Press.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
GREEK FIRE.

The great use made of Greek fire in
the Middle Ages, SO graphically described
by Gibbon, shows an intimate knowledge
of one of the objects to which the crude
petroleum could be applied. This COM
pound enabled the Greeks of the Eastern
Empire to hold their own against the
Saracens for some hundred of years,
and during two ,sieges of Constantinople
gave the victory to the Christians over
their Moslem enemies.
The terror and devastation caused by
the Greek fire seems to have been almost
as great as that caused by artillery. 1t
was blown through long copper tubes,
which was fixed in the forepart of the
Imperial galleys, or on the walls of the
Greek towns. Sometimes at the moment
of the attack on besieged place, great
cauldrons containing the seething mix
ture were tilted on the walls, and the con-
tents poured upon the assailants with
terrible effect. 1t could be projected
through a considerable space, and has
been described as rushing through the
air like winged dragon, with the report
of thunder and the velocity of lightning.
1t was launched also in red-hot balls of
iron, which fell with disastrous effect
within the wall of besieged city.
1t can be understood what alarm such
a combustible will cause, especially when
thrown upon and among ignorant and
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
INSECTS OF APPLE TREES

The Goblin moth, the pest of the apple
orchard, can be successfully destroyed
by Swinging the trees with Paris green
and water soon after the blossoms have
fallen and when the little apples, newly
formed, are held erect by their fruit stems
calyx end up. The moth lays it's eggs in
the calyx cavity, beginning even before
the flower petals have fallen; the larvse
coon hatch out and begin to cut their
way into the apple. One application of
the poisonous mixture is usually suffi-
Gent If given very soon after the bios
SONS fall. One pound OF Paris green to
fifty gallons of water is the proper pro-
portion. The powder will mix better
with the water if first wet up and stirred
into smooth paste. The liquid can be
applied by means of force pump made
for this purpose. Public opinion should
shape itself to regard as a misdemeanor
the neglect to destroy the Goblin moth in
this manner by any orchardist, or by any
one having apple trees in his garden.
The apple aphis can be destroyed by
kerosene oil made into an emulsion and
mixed with water, the liquid thrown on
in fine spray with force pump. The ma
terials and implements should be ready
beforehand, for this insect comes like
thief in the night, only not singly, but in
myriads.-Vick's Magazine.